Etymology

douroucouli

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Today it means: Any New World monkey of the genus Aotus, which are active at night and have no pinna of the outer ear. Full definition →

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The story

From an unidentified South American Indian language, 19th c.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.